Phil McDuff

Stock market tanking again today and oil *way* up. What's crazy is Trump could've just rode out the current regression to the mean on inflation, combined with an apparent productivity boom. Instead, did the opposite of econ 101: kicked out workers, reduced immigration, started wars of choice.

Labour are the party of transphobes and other bigots.

Tweet by Darren Johnson: This post is what they are not happy about. I knew at the time it would put my 37-year membership of the party in jeopardy but I was not going to sit back and stay silent while leading members of the Green Party went out of their way to trash the findings of the Cass Review. Quoted tweet by Darren Johnson in response to Zoe Garbett: "Vote Green if you want to completely ignore medical evidence and see more children pumped full of harmful drugs" Absolutely effing outrageous. Zoe Garbett's tweet: "There's no middle ground between respecting trans people's humanity and rejecting it" Following the Cass Review, Londoners can be confident that a vote for me is a vote for someone who has LGBTQIA+ people's backs.

This is a lie. He was expelled for being a transphobe.

the absolute galaxy brain move of going from "trans rights are human rights" to "we should respect trans people because god is trans"

Turns out paying 70% of my wage on rent and getting minimum hours last month due to flu and ensuing chest infection equals literally not enough to exist outside of paying bills. I basically work to just pay my landlord, debt, and energy and after that it's hope and pray lol

So tired of it

every US president up until biden seemed to realize this, even fucking reagan said no to them. biden was just such a died in the wool racist and hated arabs so much he didn't say no and trump is an insane religious fanatic.

Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida

passive voice final boss grand champion honorable mention award for turning slurs into a sentient thing that can do actions www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

title of a meticulously researched youtube video about the history of orthopedic casting: "Binding Magic: What the Pharaohs Knew"

new title after the original one bombed: "Where Do Casts Come From?"

final title change with 100k views: "My BONES got DOINKED??"

How it started / how it's going

I've said this many times before so forgive me. But horseshoe theory is to political science what astrology is to psychology: a system uniting unrelated & different things in a way that confirms personal biases

CSPAN @cspan . @SpeakerJohnson after House blocked War Powers Resolution: "We're not at war, we have no intention at being at war. The president and the Department of Defense have made it very clear, this is a limited operation."

Darkly funny he had enough self-awareness to revert to "Department of Defense" here.

Do we think the Guardian would refer to Israeli bunkers ("air raid shelters") as "underground lairs"?

Headline: Video: IDF footage claims IDF claims to show air strikes on Khamenei’s underground bunker Body: The Israeli military released a video purportedly showing its fighter jets dropping bombs at the underground bunker of the slain Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Israel claimed the underground lair in Tehran is still being used by senior Iranian officials. There has been no comment from Iran or reports of any casualties from either side. [The words the underground lair are highlighted].

Objective, neutral coverage from Britain's most liberal newspaper.

😭

Oh don't get me wrong, I'm happy to capsize Britain and slide everyone into the sea.

"why are you so skeptical of our policies?" It's because you've been running things for decades and it's shit, lads. That's why.

I feel like I'm going mad whenever I read this shit. We've done what these fucking dickheads wanted! We've sold off public services, squeezed wages, cut spending, made every millionaire feel like a special boy. And still, anemic growth at best. It doesn't *work* lads!!

Horseshoe-theory horseshit. “The journal that speaks for British millionaires” is still speaking for British millionaires

“Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem. The lack of evangelical Christians at America’s most prestigious institutions fuels mistrust.” Excerpt From “Opinion | Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem.” Aaron M. Renn The Washington Post https://apple.news/ATJF-eGWhQMuuXvLnrj0ugQ This material may be protected by copyright.

Congratulations, WaPo, you did it, you published the worst take

When I wrote a piece about my son's love of reading in January, I included this bit because I refuse to hear lectures about literacy rates from the selfsame ghouls and vandals who've cheered on as the UK's apparatus for childhood reading has been stripped to the wiring and sold off for scrap.

This is how men plan a rape and the retaliation against anyone who would intervene about the rape

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.

Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.

We live in Orwellian times.

As @lamentablyawake.bsky.social said the other day, the magic trick to justify away participating in the illegal war is to simply ensure you call the war defensive beforehand

As I get older I’m coming to increasingly radical views like “eradicating peoples jobs is bad, actually” and “a necessary part of having skills is taking responsibility for the outcomes of those skills”

Basically two groups in Labour right now:

-soft left types starting to realise they followed the herd when they probably shouldn't have and are thinking they might have fucked it.

-Blue Labour types, grenade in one hand, pin in the other screaming that if they're going you're going with them

I really like this new astroturfed talking point of “I’ve studied for years but I’m too stupid to recognize something that has been in almost every WW2 movie”

10/10

Aside from anything else, this is what you do if you're convinced absolutely nobody on the other side knows about the concept of "revenge."

Like, actively dismantling vast swathes of your state capacity and giving a lot of people the motivation to fuck you up is a plan with several failure modes.

accidentaly fires entire ar15 magazine into my foot & leg with 100% accuracy rate) alright. thats fine. heres what i think happened, [1/82]

every comment about energy prices from the trump administration

"he's just stupid! i find this plausible because i am also stupid!" is objectively a weird angle people keep trying to take on this. if you've studied WW2 for years you know what it is. if you watch an hour of the history channel falling asleep on the couch every day you know what it is